Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Radio64]

Dystopian

I used to think it was quite a cool word, even before I knew what it meant (cf. 'words you love' thread)... but it seems to me it's become a lazy critic's word for any sort of imaginative creation that isn't 'happy'.

If I hear the phrase "dystopian vision" (often from one of those annoyingly earnest R3 evening critics like Philip Dodd ), I'm afraid I now just say 'oh please' and turn off (assuming no one else is listening of course - I'm not a total savage)

Ha ha Cals! I've just finished my dissertation on utopian and dystopian literature and I have to say I'm now totally sick of it too! Oddly, it's a term that's only come into use fairly recently (arch-'dystopians' Huxley and Orwell never used the term) and is now spread around all over the place .. like 'orwellian' or ballardian'!

Having almost completed the paper I shall now have to de-dystopianise!

[Ferretfancy]

"The ethnic cleansing of iconic populations is something that I think personally is completely unacceptable, I'm really passionate about that. "

[MrGongGong]

"Silent majority" (usually SHOUTED)

[edashtav]

"Silent majority" (usually SHOUTED)

Originally used, I understand, in the 19th century as a euphemism for those who have died, it's a dreadful label.

[muzzer]

Ha ha Cals! I've just finished my dissertation on utopian and dystopian literature and I have to say I'm now totally sick of it too! Oddly, it's a term that's only come into use fairly recently (arch-'dystopians' Huxley and Orwell never used the term) and is now spread around all over the place .. like 'orwellian' or ballardian'!

Having almost completed the paper I shall now have to de-dystopianise!

Sounds like a fascinating read!

[teamsaint]

This must have come up before.....
Iconic.


as in

"Simon Rattle, Britain's most Iconic conductor.".....
as Tom Service puts it on a current trailer.

[Nick Armstrong]

Tom Service

[teamsaint]

Tom Service

Britains most Iconic Arts broadcaster ?


( why does he think that the DLT look is a good idea?)

[Serial_Apologist]

the DLT look

I know the L and the T stand for lettuce and tomato, but the D??? Duck????

[teamsaint]

king
Queen
Prince
Princess
Sir
Lord
Duke

Etc etc etc etc

[Don Petter]

king
Queen
Prince
Princess
Sir
Lord
Duke

Etc etc etc etc

Other people's pets?

[teamsaint]

[QUOTE=Don Petter;465119]Other people's pets?[/QUOTE
Isnt that the definition of hell?

[jean]

I know the L and the T stand for lettuce and tomato, but the D??? Duck????

Darton, Longman and Todd.

[Don Petter]

Darton, Longman and Todd.

Commisioners for Oaths.

Looked after our family for years.

[Petrushka]

One phrase that drives me up the wall (and I'm not reading nearly 1600 posts to see if anyone has got in before me) is 'social media'.

I have to restrain myself from hurling something heavy at the TV every time this one gets an airing.